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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2004
Applicant:
William V. Miller, Arlington, TX (US);
Inventor:
William V. Miller, Arlington, TX (US);
Assignee:
VIA Technologies, Inc., Hsin-Tien, Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G00F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A bus system, such as an internal bus system located within a digital device, is disclosed herein. The bus system comprises a plurality of master buses, each master bus connected to at least one master. The bus system also comprises a multi-bus interface connected to the plurality of master buses and a slave bus connected to the multi-bus interface. The multi-bus interface enables one master bus at a time to access the slave bus. Also disclosed herein are bus structures and methods for interfacing between master buses and slave buses.